Houston Art Gallery Association

Houston Art Gallery Association Our vision is to promote Houston as a destination for the arts.

The Houston Art Gallery Association (HAGA) consists of member fine art galleries, mutually supportive, with recognized integrity, expertise, specialized knowledge, and reputation supporting a culturally and ethnically diverse blend of local, national, and international artists at all levels of experience and art medium. Our vision is to promote Houston as a destination for the arts.
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HAGA is a 501(c)(6) organization.

Koelsch gallery is pleased to announce our latest exhibition, "Raw, Unfiltered, Intuitive Creators," featuring an array ...
06/16/2026

Koelsch gallery is pleased to announce our latest exhibition, "Raw, Unfiltered, Intuitive Creators," featuring an array of works from 11 outsider, folk, and visionary artists. With some works created as early as 1964 and others as recent as 2026, the exhibition spans more than six decades while remaining unified by a shared spirit of uninhibited creativity, self-taught artistry, and the incorporation of found materials. Through this thoughtfully curated exhibition by Franny Koelsch, visitors are invited to step into the personal worlds of both emerging and established figures within the outsider movement and its surrounding scenes.

"Raw, Unfiltered, Intuitive Creators" features works by Purvis Young, Eddie Arning, Big Al Taplet, Nancy Josephson, Claire Cusack, Gerard Cambon, Richard Kurtz, Sally S. Bennett, Darden Smith, W. Tucker, and the gallery's newest artist, Shane Drinkwater. The gallery invites you to join them for an opening reception on Thursday, June 18th, from 5pm to 8pm. As always, admission is free.

For more information, please visit www.koelschgallery.com.

Join Mont Art House on Wednesday, June 17 at 10am for Angela Chrusciaki Blehm's June Ribbon Release. It will be online ...
06/15/2026

Join Mont Art House on Wednesday, June 17 at 10am for Angela Chrusciaki Blehm's June Ribbon Release. It will be online on Thursday, June 18 at 10am.

For more information, please visit www.montarthouse.com.

Sicardi Ayers Bacino is pleased to present "Jasmine Rossi: Sublime." Join the gallery for the opening reception with the...
06/05/2026

Sicardi Ayers Bacino is pleased to present "Jasmine Rossi: Sublime." Join the gallery for the opening reception with the artist on Saturday, June 6th, from 6pm to 8pm.

The exhibition features large-scale prints of landscapes from Patagonia, China, and East Texas that enthrall the viewer with painterly elegance and stark realism. Rossi's bigger project as a nature photographer draws a thin line between mysticism and science, beauty and sublimity, contemplation and danger.

Jasmine Rossi was born in Switzerland to an Italian father and a German mother. She now resides in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from where she travels to her favorite "canvas": the vast ice fields of southern Patagonia. Rossi has undertaken long and perilous expeditions to the Arctic Circle in Greenland, Antarctica, the Namib Desert in Africa, and the Atacama Desert in Chile.

For more information, please visit www.sicardi.com.

Laura Rathe Fine Art presents "Daybreak," a group exhibition featuring Carly Allen Martin, Sandrine Kern, and Lucrecia W...
06/05/2026

Laura Rathe Fine Art presents "Daybreak," a group exhibition featuring Carly Allen Martin, Sandrine Kern, and Lucrecia Waggoner. "Daybreak" captures the fleeting moment of first light, reflecting how these artists’ works bring warmth and vitality to a space. Through Carly Allen Martin’s vibrant, energetic brushstrokes, Sandrine Kern’s suspended and atmospheric waterlily-scapes, and Lucrecia Waggoner’s luminous ceramic vessels that subtly shift with their surroundings, the exhibition evokes a sense of openness, renewal, and quiet transformation. Together, the exhibition considers how these artists use light and joy to expand the landscape into something immersive, luminous, and larger than life.

The exhibition reception will be held Saturday, June 6, from 6–9 p.m. at the River Oaks District gallery (4444 Westheimer Rd.). For more information, please visit www.laurarathe.com.

Redbud Arts Center is proud to present Rock Romano's exhibition "This is That" at their East Gallery.Born on Valentine’s...
06/04/2026

Redbud Arts Center is proud to present Rock Romano's exhibition "This is That" at their East Gallery.

Born on Valentine’s Day in 1945, Rock Romano grew up in Houston’s Near North Side in a large Italian Catholic family surrounded by music, faith, and storytelling.

He always had a band and a sketchbook in his hand. By kindergarten at Holy Name School, he had fallen in love with drawing, and by age 13, he was already playing paid gigs on guitar with his first rock band. At University of St. Thomas, where he studied art history, his work caught the attention of patrons Dominique and John de Menil, who helped launch his early art career with a 1969 exhibition at Houston’s Louisiana Gallery while his band, The Fun and Games, was signed to MCA Records.

Over the next five decades, Romano became a cornerstone of the Houston music scene as a guitarist, producer, engineer, and founder of Dr. Rockit and the Sisters of Mercy, working with artists ranging from Lyle Lovett to Trudy Lynn while his legendary Red Shack Recording Studio in the Heights helped shape generations of Texas musicians. Though music dominated much of the ’70s and ’80s, he never stopped painting, evolving from watercolor and gouache into large, expressive acrylic works filled with movement, emotion, and vivid color.

In 2013, he sold out a 41-painting exhibition at D.M. Allison Art Gallery, and in 2026, the Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art presented a major retrospective of his work. Now in his 80s, Romano still paints almost daily and continues to perform and record, his art and music remaining as kinetic, soulful, and unmistakably Houston as ever.

For more information, please visit www.redbudartscenter.com.

Sicardi Ayers Bacino is pleased to announce a talk and visual presentation by Jasmine Rossi about her twenty-five-year q...
06/03/2026

Sicardi Ayers Bacino is pleased to announce a talk and visual presentation by Jasmine Rossi about her twenty-five-year quest to document Patagonia, the remote southern-most tip of South America. The talk will be followed by a signing for her book, "Patagonia and Its Spirit." The event will take place at Sicardi Ayers Bacino on Thursday, June 4, 2026, at 5:30 pm. Guests are also invited to preview Jasmine Rossi's exhibition, "Jasmine Rossi: Sublime," which opens to the public on Saturday, June 6, from 6 - 8 p.m. On view through July 25, 2026.

Jasmine Rossi will discuss her experiences recording nature, exposing herself to a myriad of perils, and reaching states of contemplation in pursuit of the ultimate photographic capture. Quoting from the book's inside flap, "Jasmine Rossi's passion for Patagonia is evident on every page of this beautiful book. It is the culmination of over two decades of exploration and expedition to capture the true spirit of this magical place, known as the end of the world."

Jasmine Rossi was born in Switzerland to an Italian father and a German mother. She now resides in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from where she travels to her favorite "canvas": the vast ice fields of southern Patagonia. Rossi has undertaken long and perilous expeditions to the Arctic Circle in Greenland, Antarctica, the Namib Desert in Africa, and the Atacama Desert in Chile.

For more information, please visit www.sicardi.com.

Andrew Durham Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of "Vestiges of Existence," featuring the work of Jill Bedgood...
06/03/2026

Andrew Durham Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of "Vestiges of Existence," featuring the work of Jill Bedgood.

"Vestiges of Existence" investigates the physical remnants of our lives—objects such as a worn bracelet or a handwritten letter—that communicate a life lived. These items may reference significant experiences, offering a sense of immortality. Through memory, a simple button may hold as much value as a precious ring, absent any monetary hierarchy. Possessions left behind carry both lineage and the weight of memory.

When injustices occur, the earth retains evidence, acting as a receptacle of memory—a repository and guardian of truth. Anomalies in the natural world, such as unusual land formations or irregular tree ring growth, signal disturbance and reveal hidden histories. In this way, nature becomes the only witness.

The memorialization of objects, whose stories are embedded within them, documents human presence and serves as a reminder of life’s transience. Bedgood’s work functions as a contemporary memento mori, creating visual poetry that reflects on transformation and impermanence.

Bedgood creates multi-media art that reflects her questioning of the duality of human nature, and the transitional moments between.

She has a BFA: painting/art history, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, and MFA: U-Texas-Austin, mixed media sculpture. Exhibitions include the San Antonio Museum of Art, Austin Museum of Art, Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts, Andrew Durham Gallery-Houston, ArtScan Rudolf Blume Gallery-Houston, G Contemporary-Houston, Women & Their Work-Austin, Lawndale Art Center-Houston, The Contemporary at Blue Star- SATX, University of-Texas-Arlington, ArtSpace 111 FWTX.

Bedgood has been a Professor, Adjunct Faculty at: Austin Community College, U-Texas Austin, Trinity University, Texas State University San Marcos, and Visiting Artist at University of Tennessee-Knoxville. She lives-works in San Antonio, Texas.

For more information, please visit www.andrewdurhamgallery.com.

McClain Gallery is pleased to present a two-person exhibition featuring gallery artists Bradley Kerl and Shane Tolbert i...
05/28/2026

McClain Gallery is pleased to present a two-person exhibition featuring gallery artists Bradley Kerl and Shane Tolbert in partnership with the 2026 edition of the PrintHouston Biennial. Lithographs by Tolbert stem from his February 2026 residency at the Tamarind Institute, an experience that proved deeply influential to the artist and his practice. Kerl’s relationship with printmaking began during his time at the 100W Corsicana Residency in 2017, where a collaborative exchange with residency founder and director Kyle Horbratschk introduced him to the medium; Kerl etched the plates and Horbratschk inked and printed them with Kerl's guidance.

Both Kerl and Tolbert’s practices primarily focus on painting, though not solely. Each of their printmaking endeavors emphasizes process and experimentation as well as the development of ideas. Transposing a conceptual thread through different media leads breakthroughs in other areas of their practices. The small edition of etchings and lithographs on view give us a glimpse of a medium that holds endless possibilities.

For more information, please visit www.mcclaingallery.com.

This summer, Monterroso Gallery presents "Loco Planetarium: Coincidencia(s)" by Erik Ordaz Lozano and "Full Circle," fea...
05/28/2026

This summer, Monterroso Gallery presents "Loco Planetarium: Coincidencia(s)" by Erik Ordaz Lozano and "Full Circle," featuring 18 Houston Artists.

In "Loco Planetarium: Coincidencia(s)," Erik Ordaz Lozano presents ceramic spheres that all begin from the same form and size, but slowly become completely different through layers, markings, and repeated firings. The exhibition explores coincidences - moments where people, experiences, and different worlds briefly intersect.

Inspired by Erik’s solo exhibition in the Front Gallery, "Full Circle" brings together Houston artists, including artists from the residency program, to create works based on the sphere. The invitation was simple: allow the form to enter your practice, or bring your practice into the form.

Planned alongside Houston’s preparation for the World Cup, both exhibitions reflect on moments where different people, perspectives, and experiences gather around a shared form and shared experience.

"Full Circle" Participating Artists:
Gabriela Bello - Nora Benalcazar - Lindsey Creel Cherry - Jeff Forster - Abigail Gomez - Claude Habayeb - Martine Joseph - Michael Kirby - Tiffany Nappier - John O'Brien - Ruby Fear Pinedo - Cecilia Prandi - Maria Rusinek - Meghan Rutzebeck - Cora Salvino - Suzette Schutze - Matias Vega - Zulma Vega

For more information, please visit www.monterrosogallery.com.

Koelsch gallery is pleased to announce an artist talk and live musical performance by Darden Smith on Saturday, May 30th...
05/27/2026

Koelsch gallery is pleased to announce an artist talk and live musical performance by Darden Smith on Saturday, May 30th, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. In honor of the closing of his latest exhibition, "The Sky is Bluer Than You Think," Smith will perform songs from his multi-media project "Western Skies" and discuss his experience as both a self-taught artist and musician. Attendees are encouraged to ask questions and participate at their choosing. As always, admission is free.

"The Sky is Bluer Than You Think" features a collection of drawings, paintings, lithographs, and etchings from four different bodies of work: "Western Skies," "A Common Prayer," "Riot," and "The Habit of Noticing." His multi-media practice encompasses songwriting, essays, performance, printmaking, illustration, drawing, photography, and painting. Widely recognized for his decades-long career as a songwriter and musician, he first began sharing his visual art in 2018. "The Sky is Bluer Than You Think" explores his evolution as an artist and his lifelong commitment to storytelling.

For more information, please visit www.koelschgallery.com.

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